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Beeswax question

Have any of you ever used wax from here ? I bought some to make some waterproofing mix's but I can't keep it all mixed, I keep getting little pieces that separate out and can't get any mixed consistency, and when the melted wax sets up it gets hard enough you can barely cut it, Im wondering if maybe it's not straight beeswax ??

Re: Beeswax question

acebird,.... That is not true.... unless it has been filtered, (or pocessed in some manner), and impurities (not beeswax) removed, it is not pure beeswax, because it contains impurities, dirt, slumgum, dead bees. leaves etc.

Re: Beeswax question

Ace...In this case you are correct. If you want anything "PURE," you MUST remove any impurities. That is why it is called PURE, it contains no impurities. From a chemical, biological, and everything else standpoint, what people commonly call PURE HONEY, is to be techinal, RAW Honey. and there is a difference, even tho, in bee language, usage over the years, they have come to be interchangable. No one makes a big difference in the two. Milk is another example of common usage and terminology vrs political correctness.

Use water as an example as to what it takes to make it PURE. PURE WATER is H2O, two parts hydrogen to each part of oxygen. Anything else in the water, (for instance calcium, sulphur, iron,) and it is not PURE WATER, However, common acceptance has it that minute traces of foreign elements does not prevent water plants and bottlers, from calling their water, PURE Water. Not everyone lives in a perfect world. (fortunately only a few of us chemists and biologists).

Yes Cleo, but are we all chemist? Language has different meanings depending on who is speaking. If you have never heard an Englishman speak and he has never heard an American speak the conversation would be difficult speaking the same language.

Re: Beeswax question

Originally Posted by Cleo C. Hogan Jr

Use water as an example as to what it takes to make it PURE. PURE WATER is H2O, two parts hydrogen to each part of oxygen. Anything else in the water, (for instance calcium, sulphur, iron,) and it is not PURE WATER, However, common acceptance has it that minute traces of foreign elements does not prevent water plants and bottlers, from calling their water, PURE Water. Not everyone lives in a perfect world. (fortunately only a few of us chemists and biologists).

Technically you have to take out all the gasses so it would only be pure in a vacuum.
Is that how a Physicist thinks?

Re: Beeswax question

Thanks to all that responded, even to the ones arguing . It's amusing to me to see people trying to see who can pee up the post further than the other, even if there's a chance the wind will come up and blow it back on them...
Thanks for the link rader, the YouTube video is exactly what I was trying to make but can't get that consistency, I seen a post on here earlier that I didn't get a chance to completely read but now it's gone, wished the author wouldn't have deleted or changed it.

Thanks again all, I will have more questions in the future and hope you all will help

Re: Beeswax question

I agree pissing up the pole

Originally Posted by shane-or.

Thanks to all that responded, even to the ones arguing . It's amusing to me to see people trying to see who can pee up the post further than the other, even if there's a chance the wind will come up and blow it back on them...
Thanks for the link rader, the YouTube video is exactly what I was trying to make but can't get that consistency, I seen a post on here earlier that I didn't get a chance to completely read but now it's gone, wished the author wouldn't have deleted or changed it.

Thanks again all, I will have more questions in the future and hope you all will help